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| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Boardwalk leading to St. Joseph's Catholic Church in La Pointe. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of men gathered in a farmyard, posed behind two plows. The plow in front has Argyle, Wisc. from Michalson Implement Company inscribed on the... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | The Tollef Olsen family posed around a table in the yard with the family dog. A framed print of a long-haired retriever is placed prominently on a chair to... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Two men ride their bicycles past curious on-lookers. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Man driving a horse-drawn trolley of the Milwaukee City Railroad Company on the Greenfield Avenue & Third Street line. The corner of a building advertising... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Man and woman posing sitting, each holding a child in their lap, and a young man, girl, and a boy holding a toy horn, are posing standing. The group is pos... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a barn raising on the farm of Alva Paddock in the township of Salem on Geneva Road, Highway 50. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | George "Uncle Riley" Thompson and his wife and children posing on their farm. The family are, from left to right: Bessie, mother Julia holding Rosie, Mamie... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A man sits on a stool and milks a cow outdoors near a fence. Another cow investigates the camera lens in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Two hunters check their shotguns while their hunting dogs wait in the field. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A man stands on a sled pulled by a team of two horses that is carrying logs on a snow-covered road. Moving away from the log-carrying sled is an empty egg-... |
| Date: | 07 1895 |
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| Description: | Two men, W.M. Smith and W.H.D., rest on a large log over Little Bear Creek. |
| Date: | 07 04 1895 |
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| Description: | Fred Thwaites, Harry Turville, and Helen Turville celebrate the Fourth of July with American flags outdoors. There is a barn in the background. |
| Date: | 08 1896 |
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| Description: | Jessie Turville Thwaites, wife of Reuben Gold Thwaites, picks wildflowers. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Caption reads, "Sam D. Conant at cottage." A woman sits on the boardwalk and looks at the child. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two young girls with bows in their hair jump rope as a boy watches. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with Bertha Gesell feeding a calf from a pan. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Barnyard scene on the Rollo Shurfelt farm with people milking the cows. Several horses are in the yard as well. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Group of farm workers are standing and posing in a field while threading tobacco leaves on lathes for drying. Two children and a dog are standing in the ce... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with Jennie and Edgar Krueger posing on a sled in the snow on the west driveway of the family farm. Edgar sits in front of the sled, while Jen... |
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